Great thread.

One addition: many of Rubio's critics are (psychotically) hawkish on Ukraine, and yet they completely ignore the way that our reliance on other countries for manufacturing has made it impossible to produce the weapons necessary to defend ourselves.

It seems my recent articles on industrial policy in Washington Post Opinions and National Affairs have ruffled some feathers. Jonah Goldberg Veronique de Rugy @ericboehm87 Colin Grabow

A short 🧵 on how free-market fundamentalists go off the rails. 1/11

With the 2020 federal gov top-down election censorship structure coming under attack, the censorship industry is basing 2024 strategy around:
- The NATO Censorship Law to mandate suppressing US election speech
- State-level censorship imposed from SOS offices & ‘media literacy’

In just five years, Democrats went from 40 to 70 percent support for the government restricting restricting 'false information' online.

They saw what happened during covid and want more of it. h/t Jake 🇺🇸

The left-wing nonprofit sector plays an instrumental role in the border crisis.

They're literally in South America, as we speak, handing out Spanish-language maps to show illegal immigrants how to get here.

And they're being funded by your tax dollars — courtesy of Joe Biden.

According to this Washington Post article, Russia’s 'efforts to interfere in the U.S. political system first became evident in the run-up to the 2016 presidential elections.'

That's just...embarrassingly untrue.

These people really want us to believe that history began in 2016.

It’s actually less fun being right than you might think.

'Would anyone actually object to banning porn?'

Unfortunately, yes:

NEW: Hospitals are integrating race into their procurement policies, balancing the cost and quality of life-saving services against the demographics of the firm providing them.

Tldr: Cancer screening firms can lose bids if they aren't diverse enough.🧵
freebeacon.com/policy/minorit…

Trump's political instincts are right.

Our goal should be to protect every unborn life. Full stop.

But to do that, we have to win elections.

If we run on an absolutist position right now, we'll lose — and our laws will be written by pro-abortion extremists.

It's that simple.

'If firms are hiring people for important positions at least partially based on irrelevant criteria like race and sex, it doesn’t take a social scientist to deduce that some corresponding decline in performance will result,' writes John Hirschauer. city-journal.org/article/mckins…

The US isn’t ever catching up without way more nuclear and way more manufacturing